Fever in children is a very common disease, especially in infancy and early childhood. Parents love their children very much, whenever the child has a fever is very anxious, but will not correctly cool the child physically, but also judge whether you should go to the hospital, dear parents, do you have the same confusion? Xiao Shang takes you to learn together, how to deal with your child's fever correctly.
Physical cooling with alcohol?
Infant body temperature of more than 37 degrees is called fever, 37 degrees 5 to 38 degrees is low heat, 38 degrees to 38 degrees 9 is moderate heat, 39 degrees to 40 degrees is called high heat, 40 degrees above is generally called ultra-high heat, fever phenomenon should be judged according to the child's comfort situation, if the child is particularly uncomfortable, the body temperature reaches more than 38 degrees, then you can take the method of physical deheating, drink more water, you can also use warm water to rub the bath, and the temperature of the water dipped in water to wipe the body. Experts caution that it is not now much advocated to cool down with alcohol or cold things.
Fever immediately take antipyretic drugs?
Generally speaking, the baby's body temperature reaches more than 38 degrees is called fever, and antipyretic needs to be considered according to the baby's comfort. If the baby is very uncomfortable, irritable, crying, and in poor mental state, the baby needs to defer from fever in this case. And some fever cold, the child's mental state is very good, such as purulent tonsillitis, fever is generally relatively high will continue to be high fever, do not need special cooling, this is the process of high fever, cooling can not achieve obvious effects. Generally, 38 degrees is taken as the reference standard, and cooling is considered above 38 degrees, and ibuprofen preparations or acetaminophen can be used for cooling, which will be relatively safe.
When to go to the hospital?
Pediatric fever is a common clinical symptom, children often have fever symptoms when they have colds and upper respiratory tract infections, and when they need to go to the hospital for treatment should be decided according to the child's mental state. If the child's mental state is particularly good, eating, drinking and playing are not affected, in this case generally do not need to go to the hospital to deal with, at home let the child drink more water, pay attention to conditioning, appropriate medication can be, if the child's mental state is particularly poor, do not eat or drink do not cry, light sleep or accompanied by obvious vomiting and other symptoms, you need to go to the hospital to deal with, in addition, the child continues to have high fever or convulsions, trembling and shivering, also need to go to the hospital to deal with.
Parents, the use of alcohol to physically cool down is now not recommended, their own attention at the same time to remind the elderly in the family in the care of children should also pay attention to Oh ~ Welcome to leave a message in the comment area, chat about your parenting experience, and interact with everyone Oh